­Quirion Explorer + Eldrazi Skyrazer

Make off-colour mana, and ... wow, wordy. Ok, a 2/2 that mills, and once anything has milled 5, becomes an evasive 4/4. Wow, that card is completely backward.

Saboteur mana? Not exactly a useful time to get mana. (Mind you 'after I hit you five times' isn't exactly a good time to get evasion. So I guess it would fit.)

I think... sab-land is the best mash. Can it outright cost bear mana? Sure.

Uhm ,yeah, ingest in is eh.

How about

> Whenever ~ deals combat damage to a player, look at the top card of their library. If it's a land, you may put it onto the battlefield.

A bend, but at least it isn't ingest. It reminds me of Nightveil Specter so probably way off base still.

Seems severely undercosted btw.

I kind of is inspired by the spectre; yes. But it only lets you grab a land.

Cost isn't TOO unreasonable, yes, strictly a better bear. But no evasion, and only a random chance of getting a land, rather than always getting you one.

I guess I hadn't really considered the horribleness that stealing an opponents lands early on would give you, until you proposed that wording - but I've avoided the trap of "Don't have a turn 3 chump? Lose game." By always exiling, no matter what it is, the chances of the opponent drawing a land are basically unchanged. If I only steal their lands, they're screwed.

But this could well be upsized, and upcosted - making it a 4/4 bear. That would then be "Get to your 8-cost stuff" mana, instead of the useful early mana.

Maybe the bear should exile itself on success? That's really thematic, I'll do that.